How is he doing in his transition from VCU to Alabama? I spoke with Grant to discuss a variety of topics, including his transition, his mentor, his philosophies and being Batman.

Question: What are your feelings about your first Alabama team and what will it look like?

Answer: The biggest thing is that I'm excited about the guys that we have from a character standpoint. I've had a chance to get to know them. The guys we have returning are high-character guys. ... And we're going to play up-tempo. We'll try to extend the floor defensively, try to attack on the offensive end. Hopefully they'll resemble the teams I coached at VCU.

Q: Have you settled on a point guard for next season?

A: I think we have guys that are multiple position guys, and I like that. It gives our team some flexibility. So I'm interested to see once we can actually get on the floor (what happens).

Anthony Grant=Batman, either because he thrives against bad guys under the veil of darkness or because he's ripped like the super hero.

Have you watched tape from last season, and what are your impressions?

A: I have not. I don't think it really would make much of a difference. Last year's team probably had four different teams. One with (former point guard) Ron Steele, one without (after his departure), one with Coach (Mark) Gottfried, one without (after his resignation). I don't know that that's going to really tell me a whole lot about what we're going to do in our system, and I don't want any preconceived notions. I'm excited to get a chance to learn the players as they're learning me.

Q: In what way will the expected approval of a practice facility help the most?

A: We're excited about any opportunity to improve our program and the quality of the experience for our players. But everything right now is at the beginning stages of talking about exactly what we'll have. We're just excited the board saw fit to approve it.

Q: Has your family moved from Virginia yet?

A: No. But actually, they (were) in town (last week). Two of my kids participated in my camp, and it was great to have them. They'll go back to Virginia and then we'll get relocated here the middle of next month. It was nice to have everybody together.

Q: What was the best thing you learned from Billy Donovan when you were his assistant at Florida?

A: I admire his passion and his work ethic, and everybody that knows Billy knows how he drives himself. He's not going to demand more out of his players and his coaches than he's willing to put in himself, and he has tremendous passion for the game. Those are the things from a coaching standpoint that stand out.

Q: Have you thought about how to turn around the program's waning fan support or will winning take care of that?

A: To be honest, my plate has been pretty full since I stepped on campus. But I'm really interested in getting a chance to meet different people on campus and just find out a lot more about the university, the inner workings of what we do and how it affects everything else. That's something that, as time goes on, we'll get more information on.

Q: Did you learn anything early at VCU that would help in building this program?

A: Anyone that's successful is successful because you have people around you, in front of you, behind you, that are all pulling in the same direction. I felt like we had that at VCU and that's what brought me here to Alabama. I felt like we had the leadership in place.

Q: We hear your nickname is Batman. Why?

A: (Laughing). I don't know where you got that from. That's just a rumor (More laughing). No comment. No comment.